Sheppard Software has a game that introduces each animated character as a specific color. The game features the characters in colors red, blue, yellow, green, purple and orange. Once a specific colored character has been introduced, students are shown a group of items in different colors but are only instructed to click on the featured color. For example, after a green character is introduced students are responsible for clicking on all the green toys on the screen. Then students are required to click all the other green characters on the next page as well. Afterward, the game moves on to another color and repeats the process again until each individual color has been featured.
Once students learn their shapes, students notice that shapes are everywhere. Nick Jr. has a game that challenges students to find shapes that blend in with the other pictures within a scene. The game features the shapes circle, square, triangle, rectangle, diamond, heart, octagon and hexagon. Show the game on the SMART Board so students can use the interactive board pen to click on the shapes as they find them. Play this game as a whole class or display it on the board as a center.
Learning to count in correct sequence, identify numbers and have one-to-one correspondence are skills that students begin developing in pre-K. The ABC Learn Online website has a game that students can play to practice counting. The game requires students to drag a certain number of sheep from one side of a sheep pen to another. For example, students may be asked to move four out of eight sheep to the other side of the pen. Teachers can display this game and drag the sheep from one side to the other while students count, or allow students to move the sheep themselves.
PBS Kids has an interactive game that requires students to identify letters by clicking on the letter that is asked for. The game can be played at levels easy, medium or hard. The easy level requires students to only identify capital letters. The medium level requires students to identify lowercase letters and the hard level requires students to identify capital and lowercase letters. Teachers can display the game on a SMART Board and then allow students to use the SMART Board pen to click on the correct letter.